Including: Kilworth Hills, The Rakes of Kildare, Newmarket House, The Day We Were at Arran, The Maids of the Black Glen, Mackenzie of Garrynahine, Sleepie Maggie, The Pigeon on the Gate, and Keltan's Reel

Thu. 10/10/13 10:01am
WKR-CP in Cincinnati:
listening to you from afar today JMcG! in my cube, same as yoosh, but with too many dad-blasted distractions to properly commentate on every single detail of your show as I'm wont to do.

Thu. 10/10/13 10:33am
Cecile:
Great DVD. Much better than The Song Remains the Same. That's a turgid movie.

Thu. 10/10/13 10:34am
tim from champaign:
This weekend I'm DJing a wedding. I've got a bit of a technical dilemma which you guys might be able to help with. The groom requested for the last song of the night to be a slow jam being Prince's "Purple Rain" and then follow it up with "I Would Die 4 U" to send things out.

So how can I seamlessly go from "Purple Rain" to "I Would Die 4 U"? The catch is I'm spinning vinyl only and only have one copy of the Purple Rain LP. There would be a few seconds of awkwardness while I cued up "I Would Die 4 U" and that would kill momentum.

Thu. 10/10/13 10:35am
Cecile:
Everyone will be too drunk to care, Tim.
Is this the guy who wanted Frankie Teardrop at the reception?

Thu. 10/10/13 10:35am
herb.nyc:
i've taken out a couple of LED ZEP cd's from my library too. as i'm open to suggestion, and as my nephew is going thru a led zep phase, i see this on library & have hit "hold": nypl.bibliocommons.com... (and my ELO best-of is in transit to me)

Thu. 10/10/13 11:00am
herb.nyc:
that ZAINE song was real good, and sounds familiar. i wish i had a way-back machine. (thanks for Holy Houses tip, tim)

Thu. 10/10/13 11:00am
dale:
had to log on when i heard old moodies. holy crap - back to me in high school listening on the console

Thu. 10/10/13 11:01am
Whosondephone:
I was going to say the production sounded like the moody blues. I didn't think the band sounded like them though.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:02am
Mike East:
@JoeMcG - The great tunes are just an added benefit.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:02am
Brian in UK:
.....and John Lodge.
Denny Laine had the voice. Remember buying Go Now when it came out.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:03am
herb.nyc:
single file is a 30min segment? if so, then i guess it's too late to request BManilow's "weakened in new england". for some reason, i'm really in the mood to hear it (I was a fan, back then)

Thu. 10/10/13 11:05am
dale:
was that a B side to the story in your eyes? most of every good boy was average at best, except someone - maybe julie in the overnight - played 'my song' once. pinder did some great melotron stuff.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:07am
dale:
that's odd -the a side from seventh sojourn and the b side from every good boy deserves favour? was that commonplace back in the day?

Thu. 10/10/13 11:08am
Mike Noble:
did zaine griff and kate bush take a spin class together or something?

Thu. 10/10/13 11:09am
Cecile:
dale, yep. It was a way of getting people to buy their other records.

Wow, that Lea Roberts song now has me on a search...

Thu. 10/10/13 11:10am
doca:
@Parq: thanks for the sesame street clip, I only saw it now!

Thu. 10/10/13 11:22am
Brian in UK:
Produced by Steve Goodman. He was a Good Man.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:23am
Joe McG:
I could play John Prine for 3 hours, but I'll keep it to a handful. We'll do "Angel" another day, Cecile. What a song.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:24am
duke:
@Joe, @Stevel that song always does that to me also.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:24am
herb.nyc:
well since brian mentioned STEVE GOODMAN, what i sent joe was a story of how steve got kris (and others?) to hear john sing. (that's the simplified version)

Thu. 10/10/13 11:25am
dale:
when i hear hello in there i also wanna hear 16th avenue by lacy j dalton. not quite as sad, but just as lonely

Thu. 10/10/13 11:26am
Stevel:
"She gets it on like the Easter Bunny" helps dry the tears, of melancholy at least.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:27am
Parq:
Herb, that would, I'm guessing, be the occasion that prompted Kristoferson to say of Prine, "He's so good we might have to break his fingers."

Thu. 10/10/13 11:27am
herb.nyc:
aside: i got an IRIS DEMENT cassette for 25cents at library. liner notes had her write so lovingly of her ultra-religious father who had a guitar mounted on the wall, but no one was allowed to play it.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:30am
dale:
oh man this duet is good. there was a great display of porter's wagonmaster outfits at the grand ole opry when i stopped in there in the 80s

Thu. 10/10/13 11:31am
KP:
I had a friend at work who was a recording artist. I told her i saw Nancy Griffith at Carnegie Hall and loved it. Nancy was the opener. She asked who the headliner was and i said John Prine, but i never cared for him and walked out. She said, John Prine signed me, and walked out of the room.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:39am
KP:
Oops, "Nanci." I also used to be big fan of Iris Dement. I got a Christmas card her.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:41am
Parq:
Herb, I just remember reading that quote the first time Rolling Stone wrote about Prine in the early 70s. God, the things we remember when we can't even remember what we came into the room for.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:42am
Cecile:
I'm assuiming that the "dirty dog" can be cleaned up with sulfa drugs...

Thu. 10/10/13 11:44am
Jay/London:
Hi Joe just got back from hospital what a nice show you have

Thu. 10/10/13 11:45am
Dean:
Sacred Steel, yeah. More Arhoolie!

Thu. 10/10/13 11:45am
Joe McG:
@Jay: Gee, I hope it wasn't anything too serious! I was there this summer, so I know what you're talking about.

Thu. 10/10/13 11:45am
kirk from beer city usa:
tim f. c., if you are still there, the obvious solution is to lay out the $4 max it should take to buy a second copy of purple rain. I'd loan you mine if that were feasible.